Northeast of Beijing’s resplendent Summer Palace lie the ruins of another stately structure, burned to the ground by European forces during the Second Opium War. Once an elaborate network of ...

Archaeology & History How the Beijing Olympics Helped Archaeologists Discover an 800-Year-Old Imperial Palace. The Olympic Village had to be moved across the street to preserve the ruins of the ...

This photo taken May 9, 2015, shows an aerial view of the New Yuanmingyuan, a newly-built replica of Beijing's Old Summer Palace which was looted and destroyed by French and British forces in 1860 ...

Hengdian Studios built the 30 billion yuan ($5 billion) film set of what it says the 3.5 square kilometer (1.35 sq. mile) palace grounds in Beijing looked like before they were razed and left in ...

This week marks the 150th anniversary of the destruction of Beijing's Old Summer Palace, ... Many Chinese see the ruins as an open wound, a 150-year-old crime scene.

A new project to restore and display the tiles that were used at Beijing's Yuanmingyuan, or Old Summer Palace, is meant to provide a glimpse of the glories of the former Qing Dynasty (1644-1911 ...

Xiyang Lou (Ruins of the European Style Palace) is located in the Changchunyuan section, and visitors should not miss it. This seven hectare area costs an additional 15 yuan to enter, but is well ...

Northeast of Beijing’s resplendent Summer Palace lie the ruins of another stately structure, burned to the ground by European forces during the Second Opium War. Once an elaborate network of ...

BEIJING (AP) — China already has its own copies of London’s Tower Bridge and the Eiffel Tower. Now a life-sized model by a film studio of one of the country’s own historical attra… ...

Northeast of Beijing’s resplendent Summer Palace lie the ruins of another stately structure, burned to the ground by European forces during the Second Opium War. Once an elaborate network of ...